Remember the famous ‘snapping back’ of sanctions that President Obama promised last year if Iran were to violate the Nuclear Agreement? The New York Times had hailed the ‘snap back’ as a diplomatic masterstroke, writing “snapback mechanism [to reimpose sanctions on Iran] is one of the most unusual parts of the deal. In the event that Iran is perceived as violating it, the agreement allows the full raft of penalties to resume automatically.”

Well guess what, Iran continues to violate the Nuclear Deal and President Obama’s ‘full raft’ is nowhere to be seen. Obama Administration has instead responded reluctantly to Islamic Republic of Iran’s repeated testing of ballistic missiles capable to carrying nuclear warheads by blacklisting a handful of Iranian companies.

The U.S. Treasury Department blacklisted on two Iranian companies involved in the country’s missile programme. Despite the Nuclear Deal reached last year, Iran continues to develop of Nuclear Missiles Delivery Capabilities. The development of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear payload is a clear violation of the Deal that ended Tehran Regime’s political isolation and removed trade sanctions.

The two Iranian companies hit by the latest U.S. ban are considered to run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran, the military-arm of Tehran Regime with a long history of involvement in international terrorism. The Revolutionary Guards control a significant portion of Iran’s economy, including the nation’s strategic oil production. IRGC also influences Iran’s military and foreign policy. In the wake of the Nuclear Deal, it has significantly increased Iran’s military footprint in conflicts across the Middle East.

Iran will pursue its development of ballistic missiles despite the U.S. blacklisting of more Iranian companies linked to the program, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Monday.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) test-fired several ballistic missiles this month, drawing condemnation from Western leaders who believe the tests violate a United Nations resolution. (…)

“Even if they build a wall around Iran, our missile program will not stop,” Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC’s aerospace arm, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency. “They are trying to frighten our officials with sanctions and invasion. This fear is our biggest threat.”

U.S. officials said Iran’s missile test would violate U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which calls on Iran not to conduct “any activity” related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

This is not the first time Obama administration would be blacklisting suspicious Iranian businesses — after agreeing on that ill-advised Nuclear Deal. In January 2015, Washington imposed similar sanctions on 11 other Iranian firms over missile test carried out by the Tehran Regime in October last year.

Imposing sanctions on handful of Iranian companies from operating in the West is not going to affect Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb or developing a Nuclear Weapons Delivery System.

Iran is literally testing the limits of Obama-Kerry Nuclear Deal. In February, the U.N. nuclear watchdog IAEA confirmed that Iran had “exceeded a limit” of its heavy water it is allowed to keep by a tonne. The heavy water is used in nuclear reactors to produce enriched Uranium needed to build a nuclear bomb.

An official in Obama administration even defended Iran by saying, “It is not surprising that there are challenges for Iran in ensuring it is meeting all of the many nuclear commitments in the early stages.” In other words; what difference does it make? It’s just 2,000 lbs of extra nuclear material in the hands of a genocidal Islamist regime.

Iran has sufficiently tested Obama Administration’s resolve and found it wanting. President Obama’s policy of appeasement and “diplomatic engagement” has only emboldened Iranian Regime actively pursuing Weapons of Mass Destruction and openly threating to use them.

Nothing short of the detonation of a nuclear weapon is going to force this incompetent, narcissistic empty suit to do anything.

His narcissism is at the core of this.

It’s quite simple, really. HE decided, in his wisdom, that this deal was a great idea and that it would be his legacy. The Iranians were going to be brought around by his laughable ‘smart’ diplomacy and everything would be sugar and rainbows.

Snapping back the sanctions would require him to admit that he was wrong. Something that he is literally incapable of doing.

So he’s going to continue to bullshit and buy time until he is safely out of office. Then anything that goes wrong will be the next President’s fault because they didn’t use ‘smart’ diplomacy.

This narcissistic fool is going to be responsible for every eventual death that will result from Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon, and the inevitable conflict that will follow.

It was Carter who negotiated the deal that enabled North Korea become a nuclear power, and Clinton who agreed to it. But North Korea was violating Clinton’s deal from the day it was signed. None of that happened on W’s watch. By the time W came around the damage had been done and there was nothing he could do about it.

The snap-back provision is there all right, and it’s real. At any time the USA can notify the Security Council that it claims Iran is violating the agreement, and 30 days later all the sanctions that were lifted come back automatically. The USA doesn’t need to present any evidence or justify its claims to anyone. The only exception to the renewed sanctions would be that people who had already signed contracts with Iran would be allowed to honour them.

The only flaw in this scheme is that it requires the US president to actually set this in motion, and 0bama will never do so. It will be left for President Cruz to serve this notice on 20-Jan-2017, and the sanctions will be back in place on 19-Feb.

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